http://techwhimsy.com Where tech is more than just the breaking news Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:30:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a love/hate relationship with typography. I love how good a well designed font looks on the page or on the screen. I love how the spaces between letters mean as much as the letters themselves. I love how simple lines, artfully connected, transform graphics to glyphs, transporting language across ... http://techwhimsy.com/i-love-typography [caption id="attachment_152" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="via Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies)"]    [/caption] News sites. RSS feeds. Email. Microblogging. Social networks. BitTorrent. iView (or Hulu or BBC iPlayer). Time sinks, each and every one of them, providing as much or as little value to your daily existence as you are prepared to let them. “Information overload” is ... http://techwhimsy.com/dont-blame-technology-for-your-lack-of-self-control Adobe AIR for Linux beta released (labs.adobe.com) I can see the attraction of developing from a known baseline that is guaranteed to work, look and feel exactly the same across different platforms. One set of bugs to fix, one set of UI changes to make, only one lot of updates to ... http://techwhimsy.com/common-platforms-are-a-good-thing-right (Note: all prices in this post refer to Australian dollars) (Note 2: This review has taken nearly a month from purchase to publication. Some features may have changed in the meantime that I wasn't aware of. If that is the case please feel free to let me know in the comments) While ... http://techwhimsy.com/review-bigpond-music-drm-free-mp3s (Update at the bottom of the post) The analogue TV signal in Australia will be switched off by 2013. This means that everyone without a digital tuner will suddenly find themselves free of broadcast television.  The date for the switch over has been shifted several times as politicians remained convinced that ... http://techwhimsy.com/why-digital-tv-adoption-rates-are-low-in-australia With information overload comes a desire to manage time and increasingly managing attention as well. Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we ... http://techwhimsy.com/do-i-really-want-my-attention-managed Over the last few months I have witnessed a steadily growing stream of writers declaring news feed, blogging and/or social media bankruptcy, citing such things as information overload, hobbies becoming 'work' or even the fact that so many people on the internet can be jerks about such small things.  ... http://techwhimsy.com/on-information-overload Since its debut in 2004, del.icio.us has been the market standard for social bookmarks.  Its reputation was further enhanced in late 2005 when it was acquired by Yahoo!.  Social bookmarking was going places.  It wasn't that long ago that every second blog (particularly in the tech niches) had some ... http://techwhimsy.com/are-google-reader-shared-items-the-new-delicious I understand that content owners have licensing agreements around the world and feel that they can't open up television programs globally to protect the financial investment of various regional licensees. However, content owners, you need to understand that if you deny people a way to legally access your product simply on ... http://techwhimsy.com/why-internet-tv-is-failing-and-torrents-are-winning (click picture to embiggen) Apparently, no one is safe from the Google spam filter. http://techwhimsy.com/google-spam